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...Shepherd: "We're a draft board and we have certain obligations to discharge. We try to do that honestly and fairly, without considering a man's politics-whether he's a union official or an industry head. . . . We certainly will not be influenced by any columnist...
Never before, in all the turbulent history of Franklin Roosevelt's relations with the press, had he given a writer such a tongue-lashing. The outburst came because Columnist Drew Pearson had said...
...Many an observer took the Pearson flogging as further evidence of a Roosevelt turn to the right. Drew Pearson has a long and sometimes servile record as a pro-New Deal columnist, was one of the few journalistic apologists for the 1938 "purge" and the Court-packing scheme, has sent up many a New Deal trial balloon...
...press, which has usually rushed to defend the craft against the President, was this time slow to react. Lean, acidulous Drew Pearson, the capital's No. 1 gossip columnist, is not popular with his colleagues. He has always had good sources in the State and Justice Departments, was close to the old Corcoran-Cohen team, has produced many an authentic news beat (the overage destroyers deal, the University of Louisiana graft scandals). But he is frequently guilty of colossal errors of fact, often reports cocktail gossip as gospel truth, sometimes writes colossal fictions. (In 1940, a few weeks before...
Through the Keyhole. Wrote the New York Post's Waverley Root, a "think" columnist: "The reason writers on foreign affairs are obliged to rely at times on speculation, deduction or secondary sources is that the State Department's penchant for secrecy and deception makes it impossible to check any really important facts with the Department. . . . An exception is sometimes made for certain docile writers, who are permitted access to files and documents ... in exchange for using that special information in defense of the Department against its critics...